A history of Lafarge, Holcim and Lafarlcim
1912: Holcim was born with the opening of a first cement plant in Holderbank (Switzerland) by Adolf Gygi, joined two years later by visionary industrial Ernst Schmidheiny.; : Crossing company began investing in cement business in other European countries and in Egypt, Lebanon, and South Africa. 1942: Creation of the research and testing facility Technische Stelle ...